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THE BIRTH OF THE WORLDS. 225
Born in the unfathotnable depths of Space, out of the homogeneous
Element called the World- Soul, every nucleus of cosmic matter, suddenly
lau7iched into being, begins life U7ider the most hostile circumstances.
Through a series of countless ages, it has to conquer for itself a place iji
the i7ifinitudes. It circles round and round, betweeyi denser and already
fixed bodies, moviiig by jerks, and pulling towards some given point or
centre that attracts it, and, like as a ship drawn into a channel dotted
with reefs a7id sunken rocks, trying to avoid other bodies that draw and
repel it in turn.
Maiy perish, their mass disintegratijig through stronger
masses, and, when born within a system, chiefly within the insatiable
stomachs of various Suns. Those which move slower, and are propelled
into an elliptic cozirse, are doomed to annihilation sooner or later. Others,
viovifig in parabolic ciirves, generally escape destruction, owiig to their
velocity.
Some very critical readers will perhaps imagine that this teaching,
as to the cometar>- stage passed through by all heavenly bodies, is in
contradiction with the statements just made as to the Moon being the
mother of the Earth. They will perhaps fancy that intuition is needed
to harmonize the two. But no intuition is in truth required. What
does Science know of comets, their genesis, growth, and ultimate
behaviour Nothing—absolutely nothing! And what is there so
impossible in that a laya-centre—a lump of cosmic protoplasm, homogeneous
and latent—when suddenly animated or fired
up, should rush
from its bed in space, and whirl throughout the abysmal depths, in
order to strengthen its homogeneous organism by an accumulation and
addition of differentiated elements And why should not such a comet
settle in life, live, and become an inhabited globe
" The abodes of Fohat are many''—it is said. '' He places his Four Fiery
[electro-positive] Sons in the Four Circles";
these Circles are the equator,
the ecliptic, and the two parallels of declination, or the tropics, to
preside over the climates of which are placed the Four Mystical
Entities. Then again: ''Other Seven [Sois'] are commissiotied to preside
over the seven hot, and seven cold Lokas [the Hells of the orthodox
Brdhmans] at the two ends of the Egg of Matter [our Earth ayid its
polesy The seven Lokas are elsewhere also called the "Rings" and
the "Circles." The Ancients made the polar circles seven instead of
two, as do the Europeans ; for Mount Mem, which is the North Pole,
is said to have seven gold and seven silver steps leading to it.
The strange statements, in one of the Stanzas, that " The Songs of